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Comment by Maliander

Blizzard seems to have mistitled the "It's just a fleshwound" achievement.

Ah, that title is already taken for the Argent Tournament. Must say it would be more fitting here though.

Comment by Jerakal

Kologarn yells,

"Only a flesh wound!"

Comment by direddyre

A good way of completing this Achievement is to continually kill the right arm, get the left arm low while the right arm is down and when Kologarn is below 30% hp (he loses ~15% hp per arm killed) you kill both arms within 12 seconds, also destroying Kologarn. Note that he must not be below 15% hp or he will die after the first arm dies and you will not get the Achievement.

The benefit of this is that you won't have to deal with the Rubble spawning when the two arms are killed, which can be pretty dangerous.

Also, currently the achievement seems to be working differently than the Tooltip suggests, you either have to kill both arms in 12 seconds and then kill Kologarn without killing another Arm or you have to kill Kologarn within the 12 seconds as well (haven't tested enough to know for sure which one it is). If you kill both arms within 12 seconds at the start and then proceed as normal, killing Arms inbetween, you will currently not get this Achievement, this is because the 12 second timer is triggered every time you kill an arm, failing the Achievement if you don't kill the second arm within the time frame, even if you already killed two in 12 seconds before (I am not 100% sure about this, a confirmation would be appreciated).

Comment by direddyre

A good way of completing this Achievement is to continually kill the right arm, get the left arm low while the right arm is down and when Kologarn is below 30% hp (he loses ~15% hp per arm killed) you kill both arms within 12 seconds, also destroying Kologarn. Note that he must not be below 15% hp or he will die after the first arm dies and you will not get the Achievement.

The benefit of this is that you won't have to deal with the Rubble spawning when the two arms are killed, which can be pretty dangerous.

Also, currently the achievement seems to be working differently than the Tooltip suggests, you either have to kill both arms in 12 seconds and then kill Kologarn without killing another Arm or you have to kill Kologarn within the 12 seconds as well (haven't tested enough to know for sure which one it is). If you kill both arms within 12 seconds at the start and then proceed as normal, killing Arms inbetween, you will currently not get this Achievement, this is because the 12 second timer is triggered every time you kill an arm, failing the Achievement if you don't kill the second arm within the time frame, even if you already killed two in 12 seconds before (I am not 100% sure about this, a confirmation would be appreciated).

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Comment by Xi0n

Got this one today. Left arm was dotted and damaged by AoE attacks during whole encounter and had like 10% when we attempted to finish it. At one point right arm died leaving the boss with 1.2M HP; we nuked it to about 900k before the right arm respawned. Then we just killed right arm again and proceeded to finish left arm, which died along with the boss about 5 seconds later.

Comment by Lightweave

This achievement is poorly worded. You need to kill both of his arms and get the health lost from both arms to be what kills Kologarn. Got this on Heroic Mode last week.

Strat was a normal strat except we moved 3 DPS over to the Left Arm for the duration of the encounter and worked the Left Arm down to 5% while everyone else did the normal burn down on the right arm several times during the fight. When Kologarn was at >40% we worked the right arm down, then burned off the last 5% on the left arm and the health loss from the arm deaths kills Kologarn.

Comment by staticmajor

having problems with this, had the left arm on 3% killed the right and switched to the left that died 2 sec later, no achiv

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Comment by burritostand

are you able to kill the arm(s) multiple times during the encounter and still get the achieve or must you leave them alive the whole time and then only allow to kill the once?

Comment by RogueLeader

Note that each arm is worth 15% of Kologarn's maximum health and that both arms must die in 12 seconds of each other and not respawn before Kologarn is defeated.

Got this yesterday: killed the right arm 3 times while weakening the left arm to 15%. After the third time the right arm was killed, the left arm was down to 10% (so watch your AoEs even if you don't have dps kill the Rubble) and Kologarn was at 1%. Fortunately the left arm died first and brought him with it.

Comment by Sindeara

"Destroy both of Kologarn's arms within 12 seconds and then defeat Kologarn on Normal Difficulty "

In my opinion, this description is a little misleading. You might think that you have to kill both arms within 12 seconds, and after that just kill kologarn. I just spoke to a GM, and he told me that Both arms & Kologarn have to die within those 12 seconds.

Comment by odok

Pretend Kologarn's arms are jormungar wyrms.

You gotta kill not one, but two jormungar wyrms. But you gotta do it quick, because they're *$%!ing jormungar wyrms. If you do this, you get some mother!%**ing achievements, because you just killed like two !%**ing jormungar wyrms!

Comment by Tranami

This achievement seems buggy at the moment. We got this in heroic but are having a hard time getting it in normal mode, we kill the right arm with Kologran around 1300k, and the left arm around 75k, and get the right, left and body killed within 12 seconds, and do not get the achievement. It is the last one several of us need for our drakes =/

Comment by Wulfgara

We got this tonight fairly easy (normal) once we figured out a strategy from reading the other posts here. We put 1 caster on the left arm to burn it down to 50% and then fought the boss as normal, including killing the right arm a few times. Once the boss was under 30% and the right arm had respawned, we killed the right arm and then finished off the left arm (which had continued to trickle down to under 10% on it's own during the fight) which killed the boss.

Comment by ShortRound16

Destroy both of Kologarn's arms and Kologarn himself within 12 seconds in 10-player mode.

The way i would do this from the way its said:

Kill the arms, both right and left, and THEN kill the body.

NOT : kill the arms which will kill the boss.

Comment by Draenors

The achievement is still bugged (in case anyone should be in doubt). We just killed right arm -> left arm -> Kologarn within 12 seconds without getting the achievement.

Comment by daveho07

anyone has done this achievement recently erm like year 2010 and could explain how you did it?

i have done it recently and it failed. dont know why. seems bug? Hopefully someone could advise on this.

Comment by Neanor

We didn't get the achievement today as we brought Kologarn to 30%, then killed both arms within 1 second. Kologorn died with the 2nd arm.

GM said this is working as intended as you have to kill both arms and then have to kill Kologarn by yourself (not by the damage done by the arms).

Comment by Swaney

As of dealing with a GM today on this issue, some things to note before getting frustrated and submitting a ticket.

1. Must be done start to finish in 12 seconds from the first limb.

2. The body MUST NOT BE killed by damage from the arms dying. The arms do damage to the torso when they die, take this into consideration in the set up. If the torso is killed by damage from either of the arms dying, you will not get achievement credit.

Edit: For a much better guild and help on getting this achieve, please see my comment below

Comment by Vanquisher

This is the worse achievement I can think of since now that we failed this I have to bring my raid back through Ulduar and go through the nightmare of killing FL for Orbit-uary, kill 25 Dark Rune Guardians using Razorscale's breath, and wiping over and over again on XT since people are going to be wanting those achievements. And to think we are all Firelands geared 85's. You might as well wait until Mists of Pandaria comes out so these are more doable.

Comment by SepharusDK

Just did this with my guild after many weeks of failed attempts. The way we did it in the end was put the tank +2 top dps on the body to 50% then have the 2 dps switch to 1 arm each, we used an extra dps to try and keep the arms even, soon as both arms were down let the whole raid nuke the body, job done.

This does seem a little buggy and according to our combat logs we should have already got the achi in 2 previous attempts. We don't know what was different this time but it worked and now we have a guild full of new mounts :)

Comment by selvin

Nuking boss to ~40% (giving a 9% safetly margin), then evenly killing arms at the same time, then finishing boss off worked well for us, and boss didn't bug out.

Comment by Swaney

Alright, there's many different strats to getting this achievement, and many work, many don't work, alot of it depends on your group makeup and how well coordinated people are. My guild and I have had a strat we use that works very well on both 10m and 25m in our weekly Ulduar achieve runs so I'll post it here and maybe it will help some of you.

Overall guidelines:1. NO DOTS2. Assign one high dpser to each arm.3. "Right" arm does not get touched unless people are grasped. Highest dpser not recommended here, as multiple people will likely be grasped in the duration if you are running with geared 85s.4. Run away from focus beams.5. As my comment above, the body cannot die from damage done by arms. It will nullify the achievement.

Strategy:1. All but the two assigned dps on torso. Bring torso down to 35% and no lower! It will take 15%ish damage from the arms as they die. At this point you should have one dps assigned to "Right Arm" who is essentially babysitting. Only hit that arm if someone is picked up and stop dps on it immediately when the person is dropped (Also a good idea to have the Left Arm assignment be backup incase the person assigned to Right Arm is picked up, this does happen occassionally). The person assigned to "Left Arm" is to dps down the arm but go no lower than 20%.

2. When torso gets to 35%, all switch to Righ Arm. Burn it all the way, immediately all switch to Left Arm and burn burn burn! Time is of the essence and complete key here. You have 12 seconds from the first arm death to do this. Burn that Left arm and finish the Torso. Should be 5% if that when you come back to it.

Congrats on getting Disarmed! Hope this helps.

Comment by Battlejesus

A few friends and I went to Ulduar 10 to finish up some achievements, and we too had an issue where the arm causes damage to the body, resulting in losing the achievement. However, our leader submitted a ticket, and about 24 hours later we received credit for the achievement.

Comment by Barringa

When I soloed this today I attacked the main body until it was down to 32% and then attacked each arm down to 15%. I then nuked the right arm, left arm and then finally the main body, which was down to 2% thanks to both the arms dying, and got the achievement.

Comment by Guy19

I would suggest you solo this achievement or possibly do it with a friend who isn't stupid. I've had my group screw this for me like 3 times and it's getting OLD.

Comment by iambigdaddy

Warrior solo strategy worked very easily. Burn the boss to 45%, pop all cooldowns and bladestorm. Could probably go to 50% only to be safe.

Comment by Wazdakka

I soloed this with relative ease as a 477 Demology Warlock with Glyph of Demon Hunting. I used my Shivarra for reliable single target dps.

He does hit rather hard, and this combined with his Focused Eyebeams, can bring you rather low. Well, it brought me low. Just use Fury Ward on cooldown (sometimes you'll not have enough Demonic Fury) and Healthstone. Note: Harvest Life will only hit whichever body part you are targeting, not more.

Autoattacks can bring the arms lower than you want, so be careful with that (I had body at 33%, right arm at 1% and left arm at 7% when I killed all of them with HoG and the spell that replaces shadow bolt).

Comment by TevishSzat

This achievement is the bane of my existence. After clearing every other Ulduar achievement needed for the proto-drake while it was still Wrath of the Lich King, sloppy handling and the occasional bug left this one off for the entire expansion.

And all of Cataclysm.

And all of MoP so far.

I feel if I could just solo clear it I'd be fine: it would make it so much easier to get my proto-drake. But every time I think about it, there's a big block in my way: I can't solo Flame Leviathan. Maybe it's just being a squishy mage (though that hasn't stopped me from dropping Onyxia), but at the moment it feels like it takes a group to get to Kologarn.

Comment by KittyGotWet

Really hard to solo this achievement as when you are thrown by Stone grip, he loses sight of you and respawns. Bring a buddy.

Comment by ghostiron

I've been in a few runs where not everyone in the raid got credit for the achievement, like half the raid gets it, the other half not, (I'm talking about people who never got the achievement in a previous run.) I'm not sure why this happens, I suggest tagging both arms and the boss during the fight, maybe that is the issue.

Comment by Alye

As of 6/25/13 this is still bugged. I was trying to help a friend do the achievement to finish his meta, we tried getting body to 30% or so, then killed both arms, didnt work. Went on alts, left body at 40%, killed both arms, killed body, didn't work. I did this achievement when it was current content and killing an arm beforehand didn't bug out the achievement since we killed 2 or 3 arms before doing the final both arms+body. 3 weeks ago I helped my BF do 25m Disarmed and we did the body at 30% then kill both arms. Worked. Not sure what is wrong with 10m.

Comment by Zoopagales

My brother and I tried getting this achievement, with no success. We did it by the book, got his body to around 40%, got both arms down almost simoultaneously, and then finished him off in a matter of seconds. But, we were not awarded with the actual achievement. After this huge disappointment, I had a chat with a GM, who, after a quick look, said that we had actually met the requirements of the achievement and awarded us with it manually.

So, this is actually bugged, and if you don't get it, but could've sworn that you should've gotten it, opening a ticket might be worth a shot.

Comment by Morbius

Soloed the 10 player version with my 85 blood DK in 417 ilevel gear including Jade Forest greens and auction house blues.

The fight is easy you just have to move around to avoid the laser beams. Make sure to keep the arms DOTed during the whole fight. The Roiling Blood talent is probably critical to this fight. The arms should break at the very end right before Kologarn dies. No need to attack them directly. Heart Strike provides any additional damage.

Stay in melee range or you'll get hit with Petrifying Breath and you'll die. Deadly Boss Mods comes in handy. I did not get hit with Stone Grip. Don't know if it was luck or what.

Comment by Principaladn

If you move out of his melee range, you will almost certainly be killed by Petrifying Breath, which applies the stacking debuff increasing its damage to you by 20% per stack Brittle Skin.

You're better of standing in the beams.

Aside from that, the body to 32%, arms as low as you can get, arms dead, boss dead worked for me .

Comment by Aluin

Hunters, if you are attempting to solo this be sure to turn growl off. I found that when my pet was holding the aggro, I would always be the target of Stone Grip which would lead to a wipe. Since you'll be tanking, it might be a good idea to specialize in Exhilaration and maybe bring a Health Potion or two.

Comment by Grima

Wow. Too easy for me as fury warr (556 ilvl). I had to change my dps legendary cloak for unescessary aoe; body under 40% then one hand to 100k, 2nd hand the same and just Dragon Roar to finish it of and few Whirlewinds to finish the boss fast enough. :-)

Comment by SciofSoA

As a 545 BM hunter I got this after trying multiple times to take the pieces down in a controlled fashion and dieing from being crushed. Got ticked and just spammed multi-shot on the body no longer caring if I got the achieve just wanting the s.o.b. dead.

Comment by Froztik

Pretty easy as lv90 combat rogue. Left Blade Flury on, use Adrenaline Rush and burn him down. If you are fast enough you could get in the same time If Looks Could Kill (10 player)

Comment by Jerodast

These numbers will probably be irrelevant in a month or two once 6.0 drops, but for what it's worth, if you prefer raw HP to percentages, I observed between 543k and 564k damage on the body every time I killed an arm (could not determined why the different numbers). Hope that helps you get his hp where you want it before you go for your 12 second burst.

Comment by leviatan1

Just Soloed This Achieve with Hunter lvl 90 at 6.0.2 version, as follows:

1. Spec: Survival(heals from arcane shot), ilvl 5342. Glyph: Animal Bond, Talent: SPIRIT BOND3. Pet: Any in PASSIVE (for heals)4. Tactics: This may work for everyone. Just burn the right arm 4 times, avoid the beam as much as you can if you are not healer. IF you are Hunter use arcane shot on the Rubble Creatures to trigger the heals. Don't go out of melee range! if you get more than 40 stacks of brittle skin you are fu$*ed (if not a healer/sustainer). when the 5th right arm appears, BURN IT, THEN BURN LEFT AND THEN KILL. you need 6.66 limbs for drop the boss to zero, so if you kill 5 right arms and one left you just have to end this bastard life with one shot.

TIPS: Why right arm? Because of grip you are solo if you get gripped you wipe.IMPORTANT: check your dps if you have more dps better do the right arm 3 times, left 1 time and Kill, don't risk it or is another week. IF YOU WANT TO WIPE CAUSE YOU DID WRONG JUST WAIT FOR GRIP AND DONE!

Comment by Vainooja

Did this last night with ilvl480 SV hunter. After few resets i figured out how to do it. First i nuked Kologran to around 35%, then left arm to ~10-20%, switched to right arm and nuked it down. Then kinda oneshotted the left arm and took Kolograns remaining hp down and done! If you have the gear to zerg him down, no need to burn the left arm to 10%.

Edit: I had my pet on Passive and remember to stay in melee range! Otherwise you will die, because the debuff.

Comment by Bookscoobs

Hey all. Just got the achievement. All you need is a level 100 Hunter to walk in alone and use barrage. Had pet on passive and a few second later...boom the big b@stard went down and I gots the achievement :). Hope this helps someone. My first post.

Comment by TheBionicDude

This is surprisingly easy to get now (I'd attempted it solo in previous expansions with no joy). Did it with my 100 Prot Paladin. First, I changed my Avenger's Shield glyph out so that it behaves as normal (multiple targets). Then ran in, threw Avenger's Shield at his right arm which 1-shot killed it. Then threw Consecration down followed by a burst of Holy Wrath and that was that. Got this achievement plus 'If Looks Could Kill' in one go.

Comment by matoh

I find this achievement easiest with class with spammable point-blank AOE like Arcane Mage. Just Arcane Blast the boss until 60% and then span Arcane Explosion.

Comment by Volleynova

This achievement still works, at level 100 on my Hunter.

1) Begin the fight and go nuts on Kologarn, bring him down to like 20-25% health. Be careful your attacks do not destroy or hurt the arms too much!

2) Destroy the Right Arm.

3) Destroy the Left Arm.

4) Nuke the remaining HP off the boss and kill him.

5) Achievement Completed.

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Comment by Pixiwix

After successfully completing this achievement six times without getting credit for it, I submitted a ticket. The GM told me that the achievement wasn't meant to be completed as fast as it is with the current gear/power levels; the mechanism that triggers the achievement doesn't have time to be triggered. After checking the combat logs and confirming that I had in fact completed it, he awarded it to me manually.

If you're a level 100 trying to get this achievement and not sure why you're not getting it, you're probably having the same issue: submit a ticket!

Comment by Aaahead

In April 2016, I had about eight fails with level 100 alts, followed by success.

A friend and I did this together, playing level 100 characters. The method we used for success:

1. Strip off most gear, wearing just a weapon and chest, to reduce our damage. (I'm not sure this was necessary, but we were trying all sorts of things, and this is what we did on the successful run.)

2. We relatively slowly dps'ed one arm each, just using autoattacks, though it still only took like 4 hits. (Some posts suggest killing things too fast might cause problems, as unlikely as that sounds).

3. We waited a second after both arms were dead, then used normal attacks to quite quickly kill Kologorn, and got the achievement.

We had tried other orders of doing things, like fast kills, or slow dps Kologorn to 40%, then slow dps on arms, etc. One problem is that if the dps is too slow he'll grip a player, which if you're in there solo will reset the encounter, or if you're in a group, either kills the person if you don't kill the arm, or can screw up your timing if you do kill the arm. Even if you battle rez the person, the next grip seems to go out right after that.

I also tried a solo version of our successful technique an an alt after our successful run, and failed, using a level 100 with full gear on. I aggro'ed the boss by standing close, waited a second, killed the left arm, waited a second, killed the right arm, waited a second, then killed Kologarn in maybe 4 hits. Definitely all within 12 seconds, and I did not get the achievement.

So I'm still not sure what factors matter, what don't, or if the successful run was just a lucky fluke. All I can confirm is that it's still possible to get the achievement as of this posting. If you don't have a few alts for repeated attempts, I'd recommend submitting a ticket if you think you should have gotten the achievement, as some people have suggested - some GMs may help, some may not, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Good luck!

Comment by Jordii2177

So if your a warrior can you just bladestorm this boss and get the archievment?

Comment by swotam

If you are high level (I did this on a Level 100 Hunter) and having problems getting this done because killing the arms kills the body, and you know you got it done within the required 12 seconds, just open a ticket with Blizzard and they will investigate and manually grant you the achievement provided that you met the requirement of killing both arms and Kologarn within 12 seconds.

I had this problem when soloing both the 10 man and 25 man versions of the achievement, so I opened tickets with Blizzard for both and within 24 hours they responded and manually awarded the achievement. This is a much simpler solution than repeatedly trying and failing week after week, and from what Blizzard said to me it looks like this might be a bug that they need to fix so having them fix it for you is the way to go.

TL;DR Not getting the achievement but you know you got it done right? Open a ticket and Blizzard will make it right.

Comment by Railguy

Lol this achievement... I did 1 shadowstrike against his arm and he just fell over dead. Honestly not sure whether my overkill damage on the arm killed him or the aoe from Shadow Nova ruined my day once again, but I didn't get the achievement.